STARLab as an educational institution, is responsible for several courses, e.g. Introduction to Databases, Information Systems, Theory of Databases, Advanced Databases, Database Semantics within the VUB department of computer science. The laboratory team includes one University Professor, 10 senior and junior researchers and developers, one administrator in technology transfer and research and one secretary. In addition, several Phd and Master of science students are supervised within STAR Lab. In the CCForm (IST-EU 5th framework) project, a thematic network on cross-border and multilingual online complaint management that proposes an ontology driven online complaint management system, STAR Lab acted as the sole partner of ontology technology and was responsible for training, guiding and advising domain experts (laywers) with practical knowledge modelling. One of Prof. Meersman's PhD students, from the Curtin University, is carrying out his thesis on applications for bio-informatics.